Story+2009-08-25+Saratoga+Springs,+NY

“Is there anybody alive out there? (crowd cheers) is there anybody alive in Saratoga Springs? (crowd cheers)…”
 * 25.08.09 Saratoga Springs, NY, towards the end of “Badlands”**

“Alright…(screams)(crowd cheers) are you ready for a wild night? (crowd cheers) “Spirit!” (intro music starts) can you feel the spirit? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit now? (crowd cheers) can you feel the spirit? (crowd cheers) can you feeeel the spirit now? (crowd cheers)…”
 * 25.08.09 Saratoga Springs, NY, intro to “Spirit in the Night”**

“Good evening, New York state! (crowd cheers) how we doing tonight? (crowd cheers) alright, alright, alright! well, the mighty E Street Band has come to Saratoga Springs (crowd cheers) and we’re here tonight to build a house out of music and out of spirit and out of noise…now the E Street Band is gonna fulfil its solemn vow to bring the power of the music on you…but, New York, we need you to bring the noise (crowd cheers) now sing it like you mean it…”
 * 25.08.09 Saratoga Springs, NY, middle of “Working on a Dream”**

“(Jay starts drumming the intro)…Ah, that’s going a little fast…”
 * 25.08.09 Saratoga Springs, NY, intro to “Rendezvous”**

“(The intro starts and Jay is drumming fast again)…Oh, this is fast… (?)…”
 * 25.08.09 Saratoga Springs, NY, intro to “Summertime Blues”**

“Give me some noise, boys (crowd cheers)…somebody’s birthday… who’s gonna have a birthday pretty soon?...(?)…”
 * 25.08.09 Saratoga Springs, NY, intro to “Surprise, Surprise”**

“Thank you, thank you! (crowd cheers) thank you, thank you, let’s have a barbeque! (crowd cheers) I know…oh man…(?)…yeah…I wanna stop for a minute and say…19-year-old Max’s son Jay Weinberg (crowd cheers) there’s only been one other guy that’s sat in that chair for 35 years and, uh…he really saved our ass this summer in Europe and here again, thank you (crowd cheers) you’re not supposed to be able to do that at 19 years old…alright, darling, where is it? there we go…(chuckles) ready, Boys?...”
 * 25.08.09 Saratoga Springs, NY, intro to “Girls in Their Summer Clothes”**

“Thank you, thank you…we got some friends in the hall tonight, folks from the Regional Foodbank of Northeastern New York… Regional Foodbank here in Northeastern New York’s been feeding the hungry since 1982, each year they provide nearly twenty million pounds of food to struggling citizens in Northeastern New York, as you know the times over the past few years have been so hard, many, many people have slipped through the safety net, very often organizations like the Regional Foodbank of Northeastern New York are the difference between sending kids to bed fed or hungry at night, please if you see them on the way out, support the Regional Foodbank of Northeastern New York (crowd cheers) gonna this one out to them…”
 * 25.08.09 Saratoga Springs, NY, intro to “Thunder Road”**

“Thank you, Saratoga Springs…thank you, New York… (…) Little Steven (crowd cheers) Garry W. Tallent (crowd cheers) Curtis King (crowd cheers) Sister Soozie Tyrell (crowd cheers) the phenomenon, Jay Weinberg (crowd cheers) Professor Roy Bittan (crowd cheers) Charlie Giordano (crowd cheers) Cindy Mizelle (crowd cheers) Nils Lofgren (crowd cheers) and the biggest man you’ve ever seen: Clarence “Big Man” Clemons (crowd cheers) New York! (crowd cheers) New York! (crowd cheers) New York! (crowd cheers) New York! (crowd cheers) New York! (crowd cheers) New York! (crowd cheers) New York! (crowd cheers) New York! (crowd cheers) you’ve just seen the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, earth-shocking, hard-rocking, booty-shaking, love-making, Viagra-taking, history-making, legendary (crowd: “E Street Band”)(crowd cheers) ...”
 * 25.08.09 Saratoga Springs, NY, intro to “American Land”**

“We wanna send you home with a summer song…”
 * 25.08.09 Saratoga Springs, NY, intro to “Hungry Heart”**

//Compiled by Johanna Pirttijärvi//